Opinion: Paul Ryan’s War on Poverty

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... I ... I ... Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the nurse and Paul Ryan does mean that the Congressional Black caucus today ... to talk about inner city poverty and how to fight it ... will the caucus listen I've got Fox News political analyst Juan Williams was not banned in today's Wall Street Journal on the subject to ... one ... that is the situation ... is that that the numbers and I think the numbers are the appropriate setting to begin with here on Wall Street Journal opinion report because ... when you look at it it's just an outrage and the need to think back ... to the nineteen sixties where country that had as we begin the great Society programs around a fifteen percent are here and ... that's what it is today ... but if you look among minority groups ... now you see something that's truly alarming Mary which is a tremendous increase in terms of that are read out of poverty among ... minorities if you talking about Black twenty ... five or plus percent Hispanics about the same ... and if you target of an arty children you're giving up into the near forty percent so what has gone so wrong why these numbers to their even by interior stock I think the American society is that I think in particular the people who should be in the forefront ... of engineering change in terms of social policy to address ... the nature of new kinds of drivers the party particularly single parent families ... a breakdown in terms of family structure ... there's a reluctance of people to address this issue particular people or invest it seems to me ... in the better outcomes and he means the tiny civil rights or ... is it ... okay so Paul Ryan is meeting with the Congressional Black caucus what are they can and discussing and are they willing to listen to his ideas will Paul Ryan ... NMI ed Senator Rubio Senator Paul have all been out looking at ... new ways to bring ideas to the forefront with regard to solving party party issues ... Paul Ryan's emphasis has been on taxes ... in looking at new ways to use the tax dollar rather than investing further ... into ... poverty programs that have not move but the dial and YS are such a reluctance on the half of organizations like say ... the NW CPU were sent to the EU say oh boy when you say oh boy what why are they willing ... to to to look critically at these issues and have an honest conversation about what's going wrong I think they're locked into the whole idea of increased spending and petitioning the government as it ... simply adding dollars was going to solve the problem ... and that the president sends now I don't know what I don't I don't know that I mean a sophomore Dallas and not going to solve the poverty problem this country because we've been putting money into it ... it's not the case ... that he would say all those dollars have no impact I wouldn't make that case I'd say no there are some people were held could have a negative impact it could to fifty people on the ball well we know that for a fact if you look at some of the dynamics in terms of what's required of people in order to be eligible and it is their differential that some people say it's not to my advantage to take a job because I'm not going to earn that much more money and I will be home to watch ... the soap operas or something ... but what we definitely need for new ideas that would give people some reason to go to work and ... Paul Ryan got in trouble when he said there's an inner city culture ... that in some cases ... facilitates the audience that you don't need that was actually what the president said where is the president on this why is he not coming up with new innovative ideas my brother's keeper Ansari want ... that's a joke well with that it's a job but I think that you should keep as a role model as the black male role model no I think it's a he has an opportunity there ... to say that you could Education's valuable ... taking cure your family is valuable ... and to make it clear to whom corporate philanthropy by the way ... that investing in these young men is better than seeing them Galapagos like to think it has some value there ... but I think you're a larger point is right on target and which is ... the president has said that there is a Copel issue here ... and it's not just in terms of black culture that made the point that when the Wall Street Journal piece this morning ... look ... if the critics want to harp on the idea that yes most the people the country where for why these live in the suburbs enroll in a spot ... but you're ignoring the heart and soul the matter which is this tremendous and disproportionate increase in black and Hispanic party ongoing crisis in the country that nobody wants to deal with talk of an ongoing crisis that nobody wants to talk about ... Fox's book littlest one lander thanks for having thank so much for joining us